Example sentences of "[pron] in its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing selfconsciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence . |
| 2 | ‘ This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing self-consciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence . |
| 3 | ‘ The rule as to unsoundness is that if at the time of sale , the horse has any disease which either actually does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , so as to make him less capable of work of any description of which in its ordinary progress will diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , or if the horse has , either from disease or accident undergone any alterations of structure that either actually does at the time , or in its ordinary effects will , diminish the natural usefulness of the horse , such a horse is unsound . ’ |
| 4 | The Church of England , which in its 1908 Lambeth Conference had condemned family planning , changed its mind when it was clear that the faithful were simply ignoring its precepts . |
| 5 | It is not for this , however , that she is remembered , but for her writing on domestic matters and especially for Beeton 's Book of Household Management ( 1859–61 ) which in its various editions made ‘ Mrs Beeton ’ a household name in a double sense . |
| 6 | One very influential form of the belief in the equal rights or worth of each person was found in utilitarianism , which in its democratic version attached equal weight to the happiness and suffering of each individual . |
| 7 | To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control . |
| 8 | The first certain Greek words in the Bible are in the Book of Daniel ( 3.5 ) , which in its present form belongs to the third and second centuries B.C. It is furthermore probable that in Kohelet ( Ecclesiastes ) the Persian word pardes ( 2.5 ) is used in a meaning , orchard , given to it by the Greeks under the form . |
| 9 | This would seem to be the fundamental weakness in the document , which in its present form would be inappropriate for use in Catholic schools . |
| 10 | The Supreme Court of Victoria by a majority quashed the conviction on appeal , holding that , under the Crimes Act 1958 ( which in its amended form corresponded closely with the Act of 1968 ) , the necessary element of appropriation required proof of adverse interference with or usurpation of some right or rights of the owner ( Reg. v. Morris ) . |
| 11 | This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists . |
| 12 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |
| 13 | By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states . |
| 14 | What Kane proposes is the strategy of ENTRYISM — which in its original connotation was a strategy of entering mainstream political parties undertaken by revolutionary groups so as to subvert from within . |
| 15 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 16 | This can be seen in the religious movements mentioned above which reacted against an orthodoxy which in its own way had a distinctly rationalist colouring , even though it was opposed to humanistic rationalism . |
| 17 | Poststructuralism , which in its own way also takes part in that history of Western Marxism , differs only insofar as it foregrounds the implications of the theoretical difficulties involved rather than repressing them in pursuit of the unrealized ideal . |
| 18 | The honour of Samavia , the restoring of the true monarchy after five centuries of unrest and tyranny , provide the theme of The Lost Prince , underpinning a plot which in its own way echoed the rags-to-riches pattern of other novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett , for adults as well as for children . |
| 19 | Thus : ( 1 ) the said Solicitors ' Publicity Code ( which is summarised in Chapter 12 ) was introduced in 1988 , revised in 1990 , and covers the whole field ; from the general ( solicitors may hold themselves out to be good , but not to be better than the other firm down the road ; publicity must be accurate and not mislead ; a solicitor 's advertisement must identify the solicitor by name ) to the particular ( the correct designation of a solicitor 's practice , entries in legal directories , addresses to the Court and the use of the legal aid logo ) ; ( 2 ) the Law Society 's code incorporates by reference the provisions of the British Code of Advertising Practice which in its own way requires publicity material to be honest , truthful and decent , unambiguous and responsible , and contains a separate section relating to the advertising of financial services and products ; ( 3 ) the Financial Services ( Conduct of Business ) Rules 1987 also cover the advertising of financial services and products and will need to be studied by any firm carrying on investment business ; ( 4 ) solicitors will also need to be familiar with the Consumer Credit ( Advertisements ) Regulations 1989 and other secondary legislation in that connection , the whole corpus replete with the jargon unique to that area of law ; ( 5 ) the Business Names Act 1985 , which has already been referred to in Chapter 1 , requires revision of a firm 's letterheading every time there is a change in the identity of the partners , which will include any occasion when a salaried partner whose name has previously been shown " below the line " is promoted . |
| 20 | The centredness of the Hegelian dialectic Althusser presents as having an ‘ internal spiritual principle ’ which in its abstract simplicity can only realize itself as ideology ( Althusser 1969 : 103 ) . |
| 21 | Indeed , ‘ classical capitalism ’ , the analysis of which in its abstract form was given by Marx , was a sort of socio-productive structure where the economic subjects , from the viewpoint of their economic functions , did not take part directly in the apparatus of state power . |
| 22 | Perlman may convey magisterial certainty , but the element of vulnerability in Chung 's reading adds to the emotional weight , above all in the slow movement , which in its wistful tenderness is among the most beautiful on disc . |
| 23 | This is another species like C. ciliata , which in its native country , especially in Sri Lanka , grows in or near mangrove swamps and by brackish-water lagoons . |
| 24 | The best known example is that of the presumed ( theoretical ) relationship between ‘ base ’ and ‘ superstructure ’ in Marxist cultural studies , which in its simplest form asserts that art ‘ reflects ’ the socio-economic structure of the society within which it is produced , and then presents its ( often persuasive ) instances of this relationship . |
| 25 | For a company which in its 90 years ' existence has made its share of bad decisions , this may rank as the worst of them all . |
| 26 | He educated himself in its extensive library , and , though always solitary , he was curious about everything , a fascinating conversationalist and a lover of practical jokes . |
| 27 | He therefore set out to produce a corrected text first of the letters of Paul his hero , then of the gospel of Paul 's companion Luke ( the other gospels being scrapped ) , which he thought the work of Paul himself in its original form . |
| 28 | Even pictorial Futurism of course contained much that was new ; as opposed to Cubism it was primarily an art of movement , concerned with treating large ambitious subjects , and with an aggressively contemporary aesthetic which expressed itself in its destructive attitude towards the past and a glorification of the machine ; unlike Cubism it was a highly romantic and literary kind of painting . |
| 29 | Cuts and weals appeared where her surrogate hurt itself in its destructive frenzy , but she smoothed them away with a flick of her mind . |
| 30 | Let's get rid of the T U C itself in its present form , then we 'd really save some money wo n't we ? |